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Quote by Robert Watson-Watt
Not, of course, to my beautiful and infallible invention, but to the poor humans who have not yet been successfully immunised against human error.
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The speaker humorously separates a “beautiful and infallible invention” from the “poor humans” who use or judge it. The point is that human error remains the problem: people have not been “successfully immunised” against making mistakes. “Immunised” is used figuratively, comparing protection from error to protection from an illness.
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